27th June 2011, 03:32 PM
(This post was last modified: 27th June 2011, 03:56 PM by Marcus Brody.)
Doug Wrote:But for how long will it be not attractive to 95%? ?10,000 a year to not have a job? Not many families can afford this or many banks will be willing to give a loan.
You could run a course solely designed to produce commercial field archaeologists, charge ?9000 a year, and there'd still be no guarantee of a job in the commercial sector for the graduates. And ?9K a year would be a lot for a course that would only equip you to get a job in a sector where the average pay is something like ?17,000. At least in the current system, an archaeology degree is not seen as so specialised as to be applicable to only one sector. People with degrees in lots of subjects work in fast food, it's more likely to be a result of the fact that there are too many graduates produced for the number of what would traditionally be seen as graduate jobs that are available. It's not that archaeology degrees are singled out as translating particularly poorly to other jobs, it's probably seen as directly comparable to any other humanities-type degree, no more or less valuable outside its specific sector. This would not necessarily be the case were an archaeology degree to be more tightly vocational.
You know Marcus. He once got lost in his own museum